Improvement in combined shoulder-brace and suspender



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID W. CANFIELD,

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 37,149, dated December16, 1862.

To LZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID W. GANFIELD, oi' No. 486 Broadway, in thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Combined Shoulder-Brace and Suspender; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, forming part of this specification, in Which- Figure l is aplan view of a shoulder-brace and suspender with my improvement,representing them spread out to illustrate the invention. Figs. 2 and 3are respectively a front and a back view, showing the application of theinvention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the severalgures.

This invention consists in a novel mode of arranging and combining theseveral straps and pieces of which the combined shoulderbrace andsuspender is composed, whereby it is made to serve as an eiiectiveshoulderbrace and to support the pant-aloons or other garment withgreater ease and comfort to the wearer than with the arrangements ofparts in common use, and is rendered more perfectly adjustable.

To enable others to construct and apply my invention, I will proceed todescribe its construction and operation.

A A are the shoulder straps, each made of a separate piece of elasticwebbing, and havin g their several ends united by sewing together,

as shown at e f in Fig. 1, and having their union strengthened by sewingonto them a piece of stout cloth, B, which comes in the middle of theback when the article is in wear, as shown in Fig. 2.

C C are the backstraps, sewed to the lower parts of A A, close to wherethe latter are joined together, and having their union with A A furtherstrengthened by stitching to the piece B. These straps serve at the sametime to suspend the back part of the garment and to keep the back partsof the shoulderstraps in place. They are furnished with loops or endpieces, a a, which are adjustable by means of buckles, b b.

D D are the frontsuspending-straps, sewed to the front parts of theshoulder-straps in a suitable position for the suspension of the frontportion of the garment, and furnished with double end pieces, c c,adjustable by buckles d d to vary their effective length.

The straps C C, like the shoulder-straps, are made of elastic webbing,but D D. should be inelastic or but slightly elastic.

What I cla-im as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is

The combined shoulder-brace and suspender, composed of theshoulderstraps A A, back straps, C C, front straps, D D, and end pieces,a a and o c, the whole arranged and combined as herein set forth.

D. W. GANFIELD.

Witnesses:

TIMOTHY SHINE, p M. S. PARTRIDGE.

